Here are entered works dealing with architecture which is the product of craftsmen using traditional plans, local building materials and construction methods.
Vernacular architecture
Architecture, Indigenous, Architecture, Vernacular, Folk architecture, Indigenous architecture
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HOW TO BUILD IN QUEENSTOWN. Architecture New Zealand, 5 May 2006
Date: 2006
From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0008492
Description: Shows a guide to how to build in Queenstown - where and where not to build in Queenstown (not on the mountains); the colder the climate the more the glass (Notes that this will make your buildings boring); the need to respect nature (illustrated by a examples); use the colours of nature (dun, light dun and beige dun); vernacular references (a chinese miners hovel) are ok unless the neighbours make you hide it; and designing is easy, living there is another story. Refers to the architecture surrounding Queenstown. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
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Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel, 1802-1887 :Dwellings of different countries. [Plate] 148. [B...
Date: 1835
By: Bradford, Thomas Gamaliel, 1802-1887; American Stationers Company
Reference: A-340-054
Description: An early American print containing images of fifteen dwellings of various peoples of the world, including 'New Zealand house', lower right, a view of a thatched house without wall beside palm trees. Other houses shown are: Tent of the Mandan Indians, Snow hut of the Esquimaux, Patagonians, Swiss house, Lapland huts, Negro houses, Arab tent Africa, Hindoo Palace, Hindoo house, Chinese houses, Japanese houses, Tartar tents, Kamtschatka houses, and Javanese house. Extended Title - From his "A comprehensive atlas, geographical, historical and commercial" (1835) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, plate mark 281 x 217 mm, on sheet 325 x 252 mm.